Miscellaneous Short-Form Writings

My latest piece? A look at the lives of two young women, Berlin-born Gerda and Doris Bloch, who restarted their lives after the Holocaust.

Back in July, anop-ed I wrote for the Washington Post ran in the days after the Confederate flag controversy.

You’ll find “The Complex Legacy of Appomattox” in the June 2015 issue of Civil War Times.

I took a look at the controversy, in 1936-1937, that led to the first male president at Mount Holyoke College, in the fall 2014 issue of Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly. It’s called “The Great Divide.”